{"id":1694,"date":"2011-05-22T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2011-12-19T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T22:35:29","slug":"why-i-didnt-quilt-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Didn’t Quilt Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this morning before church I did a bit of clean up in my sewing room.\u00a0 All the piles of fabrics to be sewn into garments went into a basket, the stacks of patterns rubber banded together so they’d stop slithering all over the floor AND I pulled out the wedding quilt to be machine quilted, along with all its accompanying patterns and plans for said quilting.<\/p>\n

I even vacuumed the floor where all those piles had been.\u00a0 Wow, that was noisy. I’m guessing I now know where all my missing beads are.<\/p>\n

The wedding quilt-to-be was placed next to my sewing machine on the ironing board with the plan to begin work on it when I got home from church.<\/p>\n

However, when I got home, I found this:<\/p>\n

\"molly-on-quilt\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, what would YOU have done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this morning before church I did a bit of clean up in my sewing room.\u00a0 All the piles of fabrics to be sewn into garments went into a basket, the stacks of patterns rubber banded together so they’d stop slithering all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[308,1908],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_chattin","category-quilting","tag-cats-on-quilts","tag-machine-quilting"],"yoast_head":"\nKeepsake Crafts - Sharing the Love of Creativity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"quilting, sewing, patterns, beads, jewelry, scrapbooking, card making, polymer clay, quilts, crafts, crafting, creative\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sandy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sandy\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/83a364fc2641e96eb1d1af37a92142cc\"},\"headline\":\"Why I Didn’t Quilt Today\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-23T02:11:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-12-19T22:35:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/83a364fc2641e96eb1d1af37a92142cc\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/quilting\/molly-on-quilt-001.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"cats on quilts\",\"machine quilting\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Just Chattin'\",\"Quilting\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/\",\"name\":\"Keepsake Crafts - Sharing the Love of Creativity\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/quilting\/molly-on-quilt-001.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-23T02:11:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-12-19T22:35:29+00:00\",\"description\":\"quilting, sewing, patterns, beads, jewelry, scrapbooking, card making, polymer clay, quilts, crafts, crafting, creative\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/quilting\/molly-on-quilt-001.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/quilting\/molly-on-quilt-001.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Why I Didn’t Quilt Today\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Keepsake Crafts\",\"description\":\"Creative Tutorials That Inspire!\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/83a364fc2641e96eb1d1af37a92142cc\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/83a364fc2641e96eb1d1af37a92142cc\",\"name\":\"Sandy\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/channel-icon-800x800-flattened.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/channel-icon-800x800-flattened.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Sandy\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"description\":\"I\u2019ve rarely met a craft I didn\u2019t like, and have all the gadgetry to prove it. \ud83d\ude42 You\u2019ll often find me in my studio where I design and make polymer clay & jewelry tutorials, sculpt polymer clay figures, dragons, beads, charms and dolls, sew garments, quilts & home decor and even make the occasional scrapbook page, card or paper craft. Crafting, sewing and making things with my hands have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I\u2019ve often been asked to teach my crafts, and have found I love doing so. My online tutorials, in PDF and video, as far as I\u2019m concerned, are the ultimate teaching tools. Be sure to subscribe so you don\u2019t miss a thing. It\u2019s my hope that with every post you will come away enriched and inspired to take what you\u2019ve learned and make it your own. If I do that, I consider myself successful.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/KeepsakeCraftsCreate\/\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sandysewin\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/sandysewin\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/keepsakecraftssandyhuntress\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Keepsake Crafts - Sharing the Love of Creativity","description":"quilting, sewing, patterns, beads, jewelry, scrapbooking, card making, polymer clay, quilts, crafts, crafting, creative","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sandy","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/"},"author":{"name":"Sandy","@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/83a364fc2641e96eb1d1af37a92142cc"},"headline":"Why I Didn’t Quilt Today","datePublished":"2011-05-23T02:11:13+00:00","dateModified":"2011-12-19T22:35:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/"},"wordCount":140,"commentCount":2,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/83a364fc2641e96eb1d1af37a92142cc"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/quilting\/molly-on-quilt-001.jpg","keywords":["cats on quilts","machine quilting"],"articleSection":["Just Chattin'","Quilting"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/","url":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/","name":"Keepsake Crafts - Sharing the Love of Creativity","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/quilting\/molly-on-quilt-001.jpg","datePublished":"2011-05-23T02:11:13+00:00","dateModified":"2011-12-19T22:35:29+00:00","description":"quilting, sewing, patterns, beads, jewelry, scrapbooking, card making, polymer clay, quilts, crafts, crafting, creative","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/quilting\/molly-on-quilt-001.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/quilting\/molly-on-quilt-001.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/why-i-didnt-quilt-today\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Why I Didn’t Quilt Today"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/","name":"Keepsake Crafts","description":"Creative Tutorials That Inspire!","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/83a364fc2641e96eb1d1af37a92142cc"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/83a364fc2641e96eb1d1af37a92142cc","name":"Sandy","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/channel-icon-800x800-flattened.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/channel-icon-800x800-flattened.jpg","width":800,"height":800,"caption":"Sandy"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"description":"I\u2019ve rarely met a craft I didn\u2019t like, and have all the gadgetry to prove it. \ud83d\ude42 You\u2019ll often find me in my studio where I design and make polymer clay & jewelry tutorials, sculpt polymer clay figures, dragons, beads, charms and dolls, sew garments, quilts & home decor and even make the occasional scrapbook page, card or paper craft. Crafting, sewing and making things with my hands have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I\u2019ve often been asked to teach my crafts, and have found I love doing so. My online tutorials, in PDF and video, as far as I\u2019m concerned, are the ultimate teaching tools. Be sure to subscribe so you don\u2019t miss a thing. It\u2019s my hope that with every post you will come away enriched and inspired to take what you\u2019ve learned and make it your own. If I do that, I consider myself successful.","sameAs":["http:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/KeepsakeCraftsCreate\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sandysewin","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/sandysewin","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/keepsakecraftssandyhuntress"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepsakecrafts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}